Nerdist Podcast: Penn Jillette

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We love Penn Jillette so much, we invited him back to the show already! This time, Penn tells some stories about Dean Martin and motorcycle gangs, and he tells the trick to getting good at card tricks!

I don’t believe dean martin was a complete sociopath. I remember in the documentary of Jerry Lewis, when they broke up Dean Martin was very upset, but at the time Jerry Lewis was becoming so insanely huge he wanted to focus more on movies. Which is why when they had a reunion after 10 years of not seeing each other, they both started getting choked up and hugged.

I had that Penn Jillette Dean Martin-esque experience when friend of mine invited me to go see the Foo Fighters live. My punk rock sensibilities could fathom that being anything then ironically humous. I was wrong and my mind was blown.

As a self-professed Dean Martin obsessive, the story from Penn was amazing. I would like to personally offer audio copes from my EXTENSIVE Dean Martin/Rat Pack comedy collection if Chris, Matt or Jonah are interested. It is amazing comedy that holds true to this day.

Also, for anyone interested, a dear friend of mine produced a podcast of the early NBC Radio broadcasts of the Martin & Lewis show and they are fantastic! http://deanandjerry.noebie.com/

Well as a Nobel Laureate in Mathematics myself, I can tell you that it absolutely is smart to bet your life savings in Vegas if you’re a psychic and you know what to bet before you bet it. But if psychics did, in fact, exist then I imagine that all lotterly winners would be psychics, not octogenarians. So if anyone considers me saying that psychics are bogus a shit upon their spiritual beliefs then consider them shat upon, althought that wasn’t my intent.

What was the story Penn told on Celebrity Apprentice about the Nobel Prize? Because there is no Nobel Prize for Mathematics, I’m assuming the story was wrong for the reason why there is no prize, not that there is one. Cause there isn’t one on the Nobel website.

It’s eerie how much Nerdist is in sync with me. The Youtube channel and podcasts regularly contain content I’m currently interested in. It’s just solidifying my decision to move out to LA next summer and somehow put my Film and Video BA to use for Nerdist Industries.

As a skillless and passionless individual I’m leaving a comment in an internet comment thread to say, in my defense, that I am not entirely passionless or skillless. It’s just that all my passion and skill is in making comments in internet comment threads.

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Yay! I wanted to listen to the other Penn & Teller podcast the other day, but it never loads, and was making me increasingly irritated. But here comes team Nerdist! Reading my mind, and making me happy

Yep, pretty sure it’s Criss Angel he’s referring to… As a local, I’ve seen both shows, and there’s no question P&T is better (it’s the best show in Vegas, hands down). But I’ve also seen worse than Criss Angel — there are some seriously bad acts here…

Props for the Capriotti’s reference. Forget the pastrami, though — gotta go for ‘The Bobbie’.